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1909 Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. 'Silver Ghost' 'Blue Mist' [originally built as a Maythorn Pullman limousine] [60985]

1909 Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. 'Silver Ghost' 'Blue Mist' [60985] in Best of British: Rolls-Royce, Documentary, 1995

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1909 Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. 'Silver Ghost' 'Blue Mist' [originally built as a Maythorn Pullman limousine] [60985]

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Dmitry_P ◊ 2023-11-02 17:44	RUnet: Rolls-Royce "tender" (Условное название) Страна производитель: Британская империя/Египет Год выпуска 1916 Производство: British Ordnance Depots/Шасси Rolls-Royce Кол-во выпущенных: 3-4 Шасси: Rolls-Royce 40/50 HP "Alpine Eagle" (aka "Continental") Боевая масса: 3000 кг Бронирование: ? мм Вооружение: Vickers .303 Machine Gun Экипаж: 2-4 Двигатель Rolls-Royce R6 , 7428см3, 58 л.с. Размеры (базового автомобиля) 4572х1587 мм Link to "dzen.ru"
Dmitry_P ◊ 2023-11-02 17:46	Source: https://warwheels.net/RollsRoyceTenderINDEX.html
dsl ◊ 2023-11-05 01:12	Clearer photo from link above Picture is "Lieutenant Colonel TE Lawrence and driver Corporal J. McKechnie, Army Service Corps (ASC), sitting in “Blue Mist,” Marjeh Square, Damascus, Oct 2, 1918.". According to this account “Rolls-Royce number 60985 was a 40/50 Horsepower chassis originally fitted with a limousine body built by Maythorn of Biggleswade, and built at the original Rolls-Royce plant on Cooke Street in Manchester. It was an early-pattern Silver Ghost, equipped with transverse rear springs, a dropped (curved) front axle, a light rear-axle, and an under-seat fuel tank. It was named, possibly by Claude Johnson of Rolls-Royce, “Blue Mist,” making it one of just a handful of cars given colourful names for publicity purposes. Other ‘named cars’ included Dragonfly, The Silver Dawn, The White Knave and the iconic Silver Ghost – a name later applied to all 40/50 chassis. It was delivered on 22 May 1909 to Fletcher F. Lambert-Williams who died aboard the Titanic. It was sold in 1916 to Miss Aileen Bellew who married Hugh Lloyd-Thomas, and they took the car with them when he was posted to the British High Commission in Cairo during WW1. War. They were out on the town one evening in July 1917 when a man in flowing robes swept into the club they were visiting and asked ‘Whose Rolls-Royce is this outside?’ and introduced himself as Col. T.E. Lawrence and announced that he was commandeering the car ‘in the name of His Majesty’s armed forces’ and drove it away." Full story here, including why it's not an Alpine Eagle, unlike the 9(?)other Rolls-Royces which comprised the Hejaz Armoured Car Battery (HACB), and the detective work to confirm Blue Mist's chassis as 60985.
Dmitry_P ◊ 2023-11-05 01:41	I thought Lawrence was on this photo:
Dmitry_P ◊ 2023-11-05 01:42
dsl ◊ 2023-11-05 02:16	Dmitry_P wrote I thought Lawrence was on this photo Looks like 2 photos taken on the day with folk swapping around - car hasn't moved and unchanged background.

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